All the things you can talk about in anyone's work are the things that are least important.

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.

Race of Cain, ascend to heaven, And cast God down upon the earth!

"Philip Sharpe was a soldier in God's army," says the minister. "Now he marches with the angels."

For me the curse is a crutch, but the con is everything.

On the way out to the car, Philip turns to me. "How could you be so stupid?" I shrug, stung in spite of myself. "I thought I grew out of it." Philip pulls out his key fob and presses the remote to...

I don't have anything against God. Far from it. But I don't understand Him. And I don't trust a lot of the people that go around claiming that they're working in His best interests.

unspeakably poor, because she could give nothing and only received, with

"What peace can the eye find from the swift sky? \nO cupbearer, give me a cup to rest a moment. \nI told Wit these matters; he smiled and said: \nHard is the daily life, full of amazing troubles and a...

Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the...

One highly successful venture capitalist who is regularly pitched by young entrepreneurs told me how frustrated he is by his colleagues' failure to distinguish between good presentation skills and...

I reached 1400 weeks, the age of maturity. The age when you were no longer considered a child. It was when you became a scrub and the reality of what the rest of your life would be like became...

I found Esau's field guide at the bottom of my pack. Taking a candle into the bedroom, I read his book until my eyes grew heavy. From his vast notes, it seemed that almost every plant and tree in the...

A second important sense in which Revelation stands in the tradition of the Jewish apocalypses is that it shares the question which concerned so many of the latter: who is Lord over the world?

You worry about a crack in the floor while the whole mountain is about to come down on us!

Here's a nifty solution: Each couple that marries should take on an entirely new surname, chosen however they want as long as both agree to it, so that a day after the wedding, both husband and wife...

{...} what I wish for Chizalum is the following: that she is full of opinions, and that her opinions stem from a well-informed, humane, and open mind. That she have health and happiness. That she have...

«In memory of the countless men and women of all creeds, nations, and races who fell victim to the fascist and communist belief in the Inexorable Laws of Historical Destiny.»

You can truly miss characters. Not like you miss people, but you can still miss them.

"That's a huge gamble." "We're long past the time for careful certainty."

God and the Doctor we alike adore But only when in danger, not before John Owen

When had it become so ingrained in her to apologize whenever she wanted something for herself?

Nothing is really lost. Shapes change. But it's never completely gone.

Explore the rugged edge of thought. Like grating a carrot, give the paper the colorful coleslaw of your consciousness.

I wanted to learn more of love - that is built not on the shifting sands of violent passion but on the steady rock of deep and abiding affection.

Rollan didn't like when his horse had to walk near a drop-off, as they were now. He was allergic to the whole falling thing.

If she says goodbye perhaps adieu. Adieu - like those old time songs she sang. Always adieu {and all songs say it}. If she too says it, or weeps, I'll take her in my arms, my lunatic. She's mad but...

There is a black-and-white picture in my hallway, of me, Nancy, and Lizzie in the bath, when Nancy was eight months old and Lizzie two-and-a-half. I am gently biting Lizzie. Nancy, in turn, is gumming...

Schoolchildren don't normally learn this poem about Columbus's second voyage to Hispaniola {Haiti and the Dominican Republic today}: "In fourteen hundred and ninety - five, sixteen hundred people he...

Everybody finished the song at different times. At last, only the Weasley twins were left singing along to a very slow funeral march.